\n\nFestus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and productivity, says there must be penalty for positing false information on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a series of tweets on Monday, the former human rights activists said activists who oppose the bill seeking to regulate social media should stop blocking people who irritate them on the platforms.He also said they should apologise to those they have blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThose so-called overnight Social Media \u2018activists\u2019 who oppose the Social Media Bill should first stop blocking those who irritate them with insults, unblock all those they have blocked and apologise to them. You can\u2019t be intolerant and ask others to be. Practice what you preach,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome cannot differentiate the Social Media Bill from the Hate Speech Bill. Whilst no reasonable person will support death sentence for hate speech, you can\u2019t come online to say something totally untrue that can put other lives in danger without some kind of penal consequence<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe real agitation should be for Parliament, in line with S.36(12) of the 1999 Constitution, to clearly define the TYPES of false & insensitive posts that would attract penal consequences, so that govt doesn\u2019t abuse it. But to leave everyone to just post ANYTHING is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keyamo said no one should be allowed to post false information in the name of free speech.
\u201cCivil suits on Defamation of character only take care of PERSONAL INSULTS. I don\u2019t subscribe to punishment for that. But you cannot come online to deliberately post false stories, in the guise of \u2018freedom of speech\u2019, that can set the nation ablaze without some penal consequences,\u201d the minister said\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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